Medical Scholars Program

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>So I have still no idea if i got into UCSD, but i got an email telling me that im invited to apply for UCSD SOM's Medical Scholars Program (detailed here: <a href="http://meded.ucsd.edu/asa/admissions/medscholars/includes/MSApplicationInstructions.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://meded.ucsd.edu/asa/admissions/medscholars/includes/MSApplicationInstructions.pdf&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p>

<p>Anybody on here in this program? My AP Bio teacher told me he has put two of his students in this program, and that it is very hard to get accepted.</p>

<p>Can anyone give me more details, facts, info?</p>

<p>Also, is this geared specifically to practicing MDs, or should I be interested in this, even if i don't want to become a doctor? (I want to go into medical research; my major at UCSD is Bioengineering: Biotechnics).</p>

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<p>Look over the board before you post up a new topic. There is a decently sized thread already talking about this</p>

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<p>but it only seems to concern UCSD acceptance - thats not what im asking.
i read the thread (maybe the same one you’re talking about) and i do not see anything about career choice.</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about it unless you have near perfect stats. I"m being serious. THey only accept like 15-20 students, and those students have to be the freaking insane ones with 2400s and perfect GPA/ECs.</p>

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<p>if you got that email you are in</p>

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<p>^ WHOA. SEIORUSLY!?!?!? !?@!?$?!@#%??@#%</p>

<p>1??!!?@?!?@$
dude. how do you know?</p>

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<p>when you get the invite to the med scholar program, you’re invited to attend a seminar down at UCSD. they tell you that you have already been accepted.</p>

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<p>WHAA LOLALSKDFSADG !?@#?!@!!!</p>

<p>wait up but it didnt say anything about a seminar. will we be getting another email??</p>

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<p>dont remember. i just remember going to some event and them telling us that if we got the scholar invite we are in.</p>

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<p>Hey, I just emailed the SOM Medical Scholars representative, and he said that it does NOT imply admission.</p>

<p>Now I am epically confused lol</p>

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<p>MiniatureDrone has it wrong. The invite is just an invite, not an acceptance. MiniatureDrone may be referring to Scholar’s Day which is for Regent’s Scholars.</p>

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<p>^yeah my mistake. sorry for the confusion.</p>

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<p>no problem, and if i believe correctly, no one has received regents yet? cus im waiting on that…</p>

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<p>ahh. haha good thing i had my guard up!</p>

<p>All i know is that Berkeley and Riverside Regents came out so far.</p>

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<p>How has Berkeley Regents came up already? I just did my interview for it a couple days ago?</p>

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<p>I have a question. I got the invitation to apply for UCSD’s SOM Medical Program and I already got into UCSD. I really want to go to Medical School. If I get into UCSD’s SOM Program, should I go there or to UCLA? Which one would be my best choice if I want to go to Stanford Medical School? Thanks for the help :)</p>

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<p>I BELIEVE now that you are NOT bound to UCSD’s med school; you can still take it if you like and attend med school somewhere else</p>

<p>congrats. i got this invite, didnt apply, and got waitlisted. ):</p>

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<p>I didn’t apply either haha. Wrote an essay and everything, but I just didn’t get a science teacher’s recc</p>

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<p>i wonder if me not turning it in had anything to do with waitlisting… most likely not, so in that case, im glad i didnt spend the time on essays and letters of rec, because that would have been wasted.</p>

<p>you could have tried submitting without recs… lol</p>

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<p>They can’t obligate you attend UCSD medical school, but it is highly expected. They will make you sign something saying you will attend UCSD med, although it isn’t binding.</p>